In USMA 21404 Pat Naughtin wrote: >Dear Joe, > >on 2002-07-29 00.34, Joseph B. Reid at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Re: [USMA:21399] Re: Metrication activities > >> "metrics *noun* 1. The mathematical theory of measurement. 2. The science >> or art of metrical composition." > >For definition 2, do you mean something like: > >Nine, fine, coal miners >Ninety metres underground. > >Nine, fine, coal miners >Listen, can you hear a sound. > >Nine, fine, coal miners >Now all found - all safe and sound.
Perhaps your last couplet would qualify.. I suspect that the lexicographer had something like Beethoven's Fifth in mind. Joe Joseph B.Reid 17 Glebe Road West Toronto M5P 1C8 Tel. 416 486-6071
